Peertube is the one Fediverse offering that I just can’t get into. It doesn’t have the content I tend to watch, and what videos I do see on there all fall into 2 categories: some dude rambling about something in French, or what looks like a hostage video filmed on a potato in some guy’s depressing basement.
this post was submitted on 26 Dec 2025
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I will never be comfortable with vertical video. Its just wrong.
The biggest issue I run into on Peertube, is that there just isn't enough content that I actually want to watch. I tend to watch a lot of edutainment videos covering a wide range of topics and subjects, podcast episodes with interesting people like: Rutger Bregman, Zohran Mamdani, Mel Robbins, Scott Galloway, ect., essay format videos, standup comedy, thought provocing videos, etc.
I probably just haven't found a instance that works for me, but there tend to be a lot of programing, Linux related stuff (watch, there's gonna be someone in the comments because I mentioned it,) hacking related stuff, world news, general news, tech reviews, what seems to be 'venting videos', vlogs, etc. There's just a lot of stuff that I don't have an interest in watching either at all or hardly ever, showing up in any instance feed that I've checked out.
Can others relate? Does anyone have any suggetions of Peertube instances that might work for me?
I agree with you. Been on Lemmy a few days and I'm disappointed by the lack of good humor here.
I think that’s a problem for everyone, but there is always something to fast. It’s not going to be every topic that interest you, but you can shift some of the time spent on YouTube to PeerTube instead. That’s a start. If no one isn’t watching anything on PeerTube, then the content surely won’t improve.
Check out the two pinned posts at !peertube@lemmy.wtf. It has a list of recommended instances and a list of channels.
I can relate. Unfortunately the YouTube algorithm is way too good to compete against; it simply has too much metadata on literally everything to ever come close in any possible way (unless you spend a few million on compute cycles analyzing every aspect of everything that happens on your own instance).
Anyone have a tl;dw?
It's an appeal to non fediverse netizens to use the fediverse. He lists the usual pros: the services are designed to interact with each other, there's no algorithm, it feels more old internet.